I am new to OpenSuse. I downloaded the Tumbleweed DVD with the hope of installing with the MATE desktop. That option does not appear.

* Is there a downloadable ISO image that contains the MATE desktop? If yes then a link would be nice.

* If not, is there a MATE meta package that can be installed after the Minimal X Windows option?

Thanks.

There is MATE available for OpenSUSE, but I think it must be installed after the initial installation. There doesn't seem to be a MATE spin for install.

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MATE/Install

Too bad. I just lost my motivation for testing OpenSuse.

Don't give up.

Try installing OpenSUSE with the LXDE desktop. You will get a working, efficient and powerful Linux.
You will not have to face crud and filth like the KDE/Akonadi...

Maybe you will fall in love with the LXDE? But if not, it is a lean installation that gives you the opportunity to continue with installing MATE.

Already tried that before I started the thread. I did not like LXDE.

I do not care that MATE is not in the huge 4.7 GB DVD -- if I knew there is a MATE meta pacakge that downloads most of the MATE packages and themes. I do not want to spend time hunting for all the MATE packages.

By the way, a 4.7 GB DVD and no MATE? What bloat is in that DVD?

I never used OpenSuse. I am not familiar with anything related to the repos or the ecosystem. Hence this thread. One MATE meta package resolves this thread.

SUSE IS and never WAS a lightweight distro

it tosses in everything including the kitchen sink and then tosses in your neighbors kitchen sink for good measure

OpenSUSE also dose NEED good specs ( these days not a issue )
4+ gig ram
and a i3 cpu
and a 3d card


install a normal install
then install the mate software pattern
frankly opensuse makes things SO !!! EASY!!!
that people over think it

or
open the yast gui
and place CHECKS in the check boxes next to the names of the programs



OR , make your OWN ISO
https://susestudio.com/

everything you NEED is in one place

Ouch. Not encouraging.

I have used OpenSUSE extensively in a VM. It's not my first choice of a distro, but that is a matter of taste, not a statement on quality.

It is a very nice piece of work.

If you want to see a very nice piece of work - Try installing OpenSUSE with the full "encumbered desktop" of KDE with oxygenized 1D inactive desktop theme, full of neppo-mucks and ACONadies with root fs in a deduped ZFS pool. Will probably need all the RAM and cores in the world to boot, and still grind to a halt before you can say "Bloated fluff".

OpenSUSE with LXDE or any other efficient desktop is a well functioning linux box on a platform with a Pentium4, 2 Gigs of memory.

Any available "high specs" in the computer can thus be used for running the applications we want.
Not for playing around with an insane desktop that can have no other purpose than burning system resources and making the linux community frustrated and angry.

I think you can do a tumbleweed NET install, select e.g. XFCE (or minimal X) at first and add MATE meta base and desktop packages changing the software selection in the installation overview...

I have that and it runs fast. i5 and 8GB ram and the cpu doesn't break a sweat.